WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (26-0, 14KOs) had no trouble with the scale, but undefeated challenger Edwin Rodriguez (24-0, 16KOs) struggled to make the 168-pounds limit. Ward weighed 167.8-pounds at Friday's official weigh-in. Rodriguez, however, was pretty cut down and weighed two-pounds over the limit at 170-pounds. He has two hours to make the limit. The HBO televised fight takes place on Saturday night at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California.

[QUOTE=Russian Crushin]Looks like Rodriguez will not even attempt to weigh in again, will give up 20%, will not fight for the title and cannot weigh more than 180 tomoro[/QUOTE]
Don't take this too seriously -- usually Ward walks 182-185 in the fight night... Therefore this was only meant to b...

[QUOTE=El Angel]Missing weight just confirmed to me that Rodriguez is getting stopped.[/QUOTE]
Rodriguez not making weight just confirmed that this was only meant to be a tune-up fight for Ward.
And that's what it will be -- now everyone knows.
And all that talk Rodriguez delivered was no...